How effective organisations are delivering high performance Productivity is vital but insufficient for successful competition. Knowledge workers should be delivering more than productivity. Organisations need performance which is driven by innovation focus and productivity. And the most consistent and effective ideas are coming from teams of knowledge workers. The best ideas are seldom created [...]
Shipping is key. Your project started as an idea. Perhaps you created and worked your plan. Now you have finished the work. It is packed and ready to go. Now all you have to do is send it off. Simple right? Pasop!!! This is often the time when the demons of resistance and self-doubt strike [...]
Margaret Mead famously said, “I am unique – just like everyone else”. With all of this uniqueness going around maybe our offer can be more focussed, perhaps for a more specific target market. This is the focus of the Kim and Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy model. Driving costs down, even as you create more [...]
Emerge from the cocoon and hoist your sail 2020 has been a year for mixed metaphors. We all started out, doing what we do to various levels of success. Then stories of a new contagion began to filter out of China. A few weeks later – kapow! – we find ourselves in lock-down. As the [...]
I work with a local artist who is turning his watercolour skill into a source of revenue. A successful watercolour business, we are finding (not surprisingly), is first of all, a successful business. He is really good at watercolour. Jim Collins asks “what are we passionate about? Well, this is what he is passionate about. [...]
‘It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.’ The Fellowship prepare to leave Rivendell on the journey to destroy the ring. But Sam feels they are dawdling. But how to start? How to take the first step? Anyone who has circled around a task, not knowing where to begin will know this [...]
Here is a model for our emotional response to change. This is based on the Five Stages of Grief by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: As we reflect on this model we can relate these steps to our own story. We may also see where we have become stuck in a change. Our ability to navigate change depends [...]
You have defined your purpose. You have articulated a compelling vision for your organisation. Your values and your norms are clear. You have analysed your market and your competitive environment. You have evaluated your financial performance from your previous year and set your financial targets for the coming year. You have reviewed your offer. You [...]
Conversaction Newsletter – Week 1 August 2020 You have defined your strategy. You have a roadmap to achieve your strategy. Your executives are energised and ready to lead. Your staff are poised, eager to roll. Now what? … Now is the time for effective planning. And execution! With the change in which we all are [...]
In June 01 1999 Napster launched the peer-to-peer file sharing. People around the world began to share their music. At their height in February 2001 they had over 25 million users across the globe. Soon after this they were shut down by a court order from the music industry. In January 09 2001 Apple announced [...]
